Womadelaide gears up for 20th event

Another 25 artists have been added to the program for next year's Womadelaide dance and music festival at Botanic Park.

It will be the 20th anniversary of the event, which will be held over four days from March 9.

Organisers hope to have more signings to announce within weeks.

Womadelaide program manager Annette Tripodi says again there will be a wide variety of performers.

"We've got a bit of a combination of some artists that we've loved from past festivals, like Tinariwen from Mali, Gurrumul from Australia, and mixing them up with a lot of artists who are making their Australian debut or their Womadelaide debut like Staff Benda Bilili from the Demoratic Republic of Congo and many, many more," she said.

Other highlights will include the Master Drummers of Burundi, French gypsy troupe Lo'Jo, Sharon Shannon Big Band from Ireland and Indian satoor virtuoso, Shivkumar Sharma.

Australian performers will include Blue King Brown and the Pigram Brothers.